Could everyone check in after the earlier earthquake please.

PC_Dave

Alnico said:

Nothing ever happens in Bedford.
Not even snow. (Last fell here in 2010).

I miss life sometimes...

What the heck is “Bedford”?!?

Emp_Fab

I reckon I must be the closest to it.......  11 miles from the epicentre as the crow flies.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000d3uw#map

Anyone nearer ?


Edit; they've updated the location.  I'm now 14.9 miles away.

richardhomer

RandallFlagg said:

My wife says she didn't feel anything

That wasn’t what she said to me

sinbaadi

There's enough green-belt development around here for a magnitude 8 quake to go entirely unnoticed.

speshul91

Sorry I've been constipated. 

57Deluxe

Earthquake Devices - -anything for a spot of free publicity

Legionreturns

I was entirely unmoved. Mrs Returns is still calming down now. I'm just that good

Nunogilberto

I probably live about 30 or so miles from the epicentre - I'd popped out in the car, went to a neighbouring Wetherspoons for a meal and a drink and started seeing all the craziness on Facebook. Missed it whilst in the car it seems.

Myranda

I was crushed under falling masonary in the great shaker of 2018... the funeral was very sad

Alnico

PC_Dave said:

Alnico said:

Nothing ever happens in Bedford.
Not even snow. (Last fell here in 2010).

I miss life sometimes...

What the heck is “Bedford”?!?

It's the pretty (HaHa!) little market town just north of Luton.
The flowers in the toilet window if you like.

Sassafras

Emp_Fab said:

I reckon I must be the closest to it.......  11 miles from the epicentre as the crow flies.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000d3uw#map

Anyone nearer ?


Edit; they've updated the location.  I'm now 14.9 miles away.

Christ!
That's a hell of an earthquake if you ended up nearly 4 miles away.

JezWynd

rolls1392 said:

Nowt in Cornwall 

The earth moved in Devon.

Clarky

didn't notice nufink

merlin

Didn't feel a thing in Brighton. No change there then. 

simonk

JezWynd said:

rolls1392 said:

Nowt in Cornwall 

The earth moved in Devon.

Sure did. The Tamar must have soaked it up.

thermionic

There's no rugby on this weekend, so Wales on Sunday has to fill its front page with something:

https://i.imgur.com/tv7TIpP.jpg

blobb

Has anyone done the joke about their / someone else's wife [delete as appropriate / comedy direction dictates] not feeling anything yet?

Stavros

Didn’t feel a thing in Yorkshire, think it might be something to do with Welsh self-rule.

Emp_Fab

I’ve got to be honest, I think a lot of people are laying it on a bit thick with their descriptions in the press...  I’m pretty close and I barely noticed it.  Pugsley was just jumping onto the sofa and I heard a bang - just one.  It wasn't particularly loud - say a tennis ball bouncing off the window, but it was strange in that there didn't seem to be a direction to it - it was just everywhere.
My initial though was that the dog had hit something and I looked behind me but he was fine.  Then I discussed with Mrs Fab if a bird might have flown into the window, then she said "the window sill is shaking!".  I didn't feel anything from the sofa and the shaking stopped quickly.  I wondered, then tried to visit the British Geological Survey website, which was unresponsive.  It was then that I thought it might have been an earthquake.

I've seen reports full of hyperbole "I thought the house was falling down !!" etc.

FFS.

mart

Emp_Fab said:

I reckon I must be the closest to it.......  11 miles from the epicentre as the crow flies.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000d3uw#map

Anyone nearer ?


Edit; they've updated the location.  I'm now 14.9 miles away.

7.5 miles. It was quite shakey.